DVD
and Discussion
"Slender
Threads: a conversation with Robert Johnson"
17th July
2009
Robert A. Johnson, who recently celebrated his 88th
birthday, is a well-known Jungian analyst and lecturer. Although
officially retired and living in San Diego, he still makes occasional
appearances at public lectures. He has visited Australia several
times. Robert was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich
but
complex theories with simple elegance, opening them to an entirely new
audience. His best-known books include He, She, Inner Work, and Owning
Your Own Shadow. Johnson’s writing is appreciated
for its
beautiful retellings of timeless myths and folk tales, and for its deep
wisdom and practical insight. No-one is more responsible for bringing
Jung’s ideas to a wider public than Robert Johnson.
In
conversation with J. Pitman McGehee at Robert’s apartment in San Diego
in 2002, Johnson reveals the range of his work and life experience, and
the ‘slender threads’ that have led him along his path.
Lecture and Discussion -
"Meetings with Dali and Jung"
Dr
Simonne Jameson
21st August 2009
Salvador Dali was a core member of the Surrealist movement in art,
which was based on imagery from dreams. Working with Dali’s
artistic inspiration derived from the unconscious, Dr. Jameson will
display and interpret some of his paintings, including his portrait of
Freud. She will discuss the influence on Dali of his
encounter with Freud. As well, Dr. Jameson will speak of her encounter
and analysis with Jung. She was a lifelong friend of Jung’s biographer,
the analyst and author Yolande Jacobi. In conversation with
Annette Lowe, Dr. Jameson will describe some of the experiences of her
extraordinary life.
Simonne
Levi-Jameson was born in Paris and is a survivor of the
Holocaust. She endured a horrific imprisonment during World
War II. Her interest in art was cultivated when she married
an art historian. At this time she also studied with Jung,
becoming a child psychologist. She moved to Rome, where she
opened an art gallery, and then to England where she worked as a child
psychologist. In 1975 she came to Australia and continued to
work in child psychology. More recently, she has dedicated
her time to mounting exhibitions and to her Children’s Rights
Foundation, helping children in need.
Lecture and Discussion
- "Listening Silence"
Rt. Rev.
David Tomlin OCSO
18th
September
2009
Listening inwardly is a vital ingredient for both our psychological and
our spiritual development. The levels of external and
internal noise in our society today tend to alienate us from ourselves,
others, and the deepest reality, God. Silence facilitates a listening
that confronts this alienation and has the potential to heal and unite
at all levels. It is a deep need for all of us, and is the starting
point for any work on ourselves.
Your
president met David Tomlin over an agreeable bottle of red during a
weekend stay at Tarrawarra monastery. It was clear that his
profound spiritual life has not dampened his sense of humour or
interest in world events.
After completing a B.A. at the University of Queensland, David entered
the Cistercian community at Tarrawarra in 1960, made his Solemn
Profession in 1965, was ordained priest in 1968, then did a Masters in
Theology (Licentiate) in the Spirituality Institute of the Gregorian
University, Rome, 1969-1971. Returning to the monastery he taught
monastic spirituality and filled the role of Master of the Junior
Professed. He was elected abbot of the community in 1988 and continues
in that role.
Lecture and Discussion - "Sandplay in adult
psychotherapy"
Roman
Ilgauskas
16th
October 2009
In the 1950s Dora Kalff combined Jungian psychology and Eastern
philosophy with Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique, to create what
she called “Sandplay Therapy”. It is used today with both adults and
children and involves the patient’s creation of a miniature world in a
tray of sand, in the presence of a trained practitioner. The
non-verbal, symbolic nature of the method moves directly to the
unconscious in the client, which can suddenly change the quality, depth
or direction of the client’s inner and outer experience. This bridge to
the unconscious offers healing and transformation.
Roman will outline the basic tenets of Dora Kalff’s sandplay therapy,
and how it is experienced by patients in therapy.
Roman
Ilgauskas is a registered Guided Imagery and Music Therapist, with
diplomas in art therapy and transpersonal counselling. He is a clinical
member of the Australian Counselling Association, a Full Member of the
Australian Association of Holistic and Transpersonal Counsellors Inc.
and is currently a candidate for membership of the International
Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST) Zurich. He teaches expressive
therapy using music, imagery, art, dreamwork, sandplay and movement.
Lecture and Discussion - "Tristan
and Isolde: thoughts on the psychology of romantic love"
Stan o’Loughlin
20th
November 2009
“Tristan and Isolde” is Wagner’s most difficult and passionate
work. Influenced by his love for Mathilde Wesendonck, the
philosophy of Schopenhauer, and his reading of Buddhism, he left the
“Ring” and composed a monumental poem to a love that may or
may not have been fulfilled. He uses ‘new’, or largely atonal
music to describe a longing between the lovers that can only be
resolved in death. We look at the day and night,
consciousness and unconsciousness, and the pain of living and longing
juxtaposed against ‘liebestod’ or love-death, with musical examples,
and illustrations from the legend.
Stan
O’Loughlin is a semi retired orthopaedic surgeon, who has had a love of
music, and the myths and legends, since childhood. At about
ten, he became interested in opera, mainly Verdi, Puccini, and the
romantic Italian style. After seeing “Lohengrin” at fifteen,
he began the journey into Wagner which combined myth, legend and
music. He joined the Richard Wagner society in London in
1974, and the newly formed society in Melbourne in 1982, and has been
President of the Wagner Society here for two terms: 2003-2005, and
2007-2009.
Musical Celebration - "Punctuating the Daily Round"
Maxwell
Ketels
11th December
2009
NOTE: This is the second Friday of December
The festive season returns. Festival or "feast" can be a
solemn and a quietly inspired focus. It can also be a loud,
ecstatic, merry-making bacchanal. These highly
charged periods can give a renewed sense of communal belonging to
social groups.
A guest, Angelina Herve, will speak about Russian pagan and Orthodox
Nativity seasonal customs and symbolism in her original Motherland. We
will also hear about Hanukkah, the Jewish “festival of lights” (Dec
11-19, 2009) from Yudith Enya Scholte, and then return to our blazing
hot “down under” Christmas time.
Live music and song will be performed.
Maxwell
has been playing and studying flute since 1971, and sings as a tenor in
orchestral choirs. Since then, history and
geography teaching, work in child counselling and as a massage
practitioner has followed. He has researched and written a
book on Pan, the Greek mythological, flute-playing fertility figure,
and has lectured on Pan's origins, development and symbolic
meaning. This year Maxwell is helping to organise and train
volunteers for the World Parliament of Religions in Melbourne (December
3-9, 2009).
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